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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Broderick Matter, Parts One and Two (Corrected) (EP0951) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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into today's episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Doller, we begin a new series.
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It's time for the Broadwick Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny
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Doller. My name's Steele, mister Dollar Claims Division, Eastern Trust Insurance Company
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Steal. You don't know me, mister Dollar. People are Universal Adjustments suggested
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I contact you thought you might be interested in helping me pay off a claim.
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O kay, tell me about it. Mister Steele. One of our
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policyholders passed away last month and we cast seem to locate his beneficiary. She
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just doesn't seem to be around. Maybe she doesn't want the money. Everybody
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wants money, mister Dollar, especially insurance money, be there in an hour
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tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man
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with the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator Yours Truley Johnny Dollar.
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Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the East and Trust Insurance
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Company Claims Division, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures
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during my investigation of the Broderick matter. Expense account Item one twenty five cents
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bus fare my apartment to the East and Trust Insurance Building in the office of
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Robert Steele. He was a big, sandy haired man on a tweed suit.
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We shook hands, looked each other over, and then got down to
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business. Samisa Dollar. The deceased policy holder was named John Smith. John
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Adams Smith, age sixty seven, died in City Hospital, Charity Ward,
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twenty second of last month. That's certificate pneumonia and other things. What other
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things? The intern signed certificate said Smith was pretty run down. Evidences of
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malnutrition, possible TV history not know that here, mister Steele doesn't make any
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difference. Smith was able to stand the exam for the policies when they were
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issued in nineteen forty three. You got him there, Yes, fifteen hundred
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total beneficiary. Lorraine Broderick. She the one you can locate. She's the
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one. Any other possible heirs or family or anyone. No. Smith was
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all alone, no problems. There any other material that might help to find
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Lorraine Broderick. You know this stuff here, it might help you. I
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don't know. I just don't know. You sound discourage, mister Steele.
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Fifteen hundred dollars isn't a lot of money, and the chances are Lorraine brought
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Errick won't even remember John Adam Smith when you do find it. But I
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hope you do. I'm explaining this badly. Look here you see and here
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and here. It's the same all through the book. Smith was absolutely religious
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about his payments, never missed a one ever. Let it slide one day.
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Now, I bet I've got the record of twenty thousand policy buyers,
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but none of them reads like that. I'm impressed, mister Steele. Can
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you tell me why Smith died in a charity Ward. If he was this
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conscientious, he didn't have any money or friends or home. He made his
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living selling papers. We wouldn't have known about his death except for the fact
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that the coroner's office called us, What can you tell me about his beneficiary?
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Lorraine brought her. He was just someone who stopped and talked to him
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one day while he was selling papers. She was eleven years old at the
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time. What yes, The agent who sold the policies used to buy his
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papers from the old boy. One day Smith stopped him and said he wanted
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to do something nice for a nice little girl named Lorraine Broderick, so he
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began taking out the policies. The agentn't have any more background on that part
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of it. No, Lorraine Broderick met Smith that one afternoon and helped him
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sell his newspapers. Smith never saw her again after that nineteen forty three.
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She must be twenty three or so. Now. I hope she grew to
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be the kind of person he thought she was. Then hardly any of us
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fell out the promise we have an eleven years mister Steele, Then that isn't
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what I mean. I mean. If he met her that one day when
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she was a little girl, and he made this gesture toward her, and
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it was tough for him to make those payments all those years. I hope
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she deserves it. The money doesn't mean anything, but that kind of endorsement
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from somebody, even an old bird who sells papers on a corner, is
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worth more than all the money in the world. Does that sound foolish?
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Mister Dollar, Not a bit, mister Steele, not a bit? Expensive
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count Item two two dollars cab fair to Lorraine Brodrick's last known address fourteen eighty
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five Cushing Street, a broken down apartment house that had probably never seen better
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days or better neighbors. The owner and manager of the building recalled that Paul
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and Mary brought Rick, parents of Lorraine, had been killed in an automobile
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accident in nineteen forty eight. The manager did not know what had become of
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Lorraine. She had moved out of the apartment two days after the funeral.
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No forwarding address expense account Item three four bits more cab fare, this time
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seven blocks away to Pulaski Street and a dingy cluster of red brick buildings that
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were yielding slowly to time and wear. I arrived at three on the duck.
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I don't think high school has ever changed much. At least this one
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was no different from the one I'd been in way back when the persistent smell
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of pencil sharpeners ain't the scarted lunch. Yes, sister Mary Regina, Yes,
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my I help you. Good afternoon, sister. My name's Johnny Dollar.
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I wonder if I could talk to you a moment. Dollar. Yes,
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are you sure you shouldn't be speaking to sister Amadeia in the grade school?
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I don't believe we have any students named Dollar. Oh, no,
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sister, I don't have any children in school here. I've been hired by
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Eastern Trust Insurance Company to locate a beneficiary on one of their insurance policies.
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I thought perhaps you might help me. Well, I've tried, mister d
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I took a chance and came here because it was the nearest high school to
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the girls address. Her name is Lorraine Broderick. Lorraine Roderick. Yes.
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The last trace I have of her was in nineteen forty eight. She was
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about seventeen then, possibly still in school, possibly the school Lorraine roder So,
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I'm familiar, sister, Oh in a way, Yes, Oh,
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there are so many, so many, mister d Yeah, I just read
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about three thousand amount in the hall. Yes, I know nineteen forty eight
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been so rady Roderie, Lorraine Mary Broderie. Yes, mister Dalla, your
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guest was very good. She was here in Saint Charles from nineteen forty five
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to forty eight. Yes, I wonder if there's an address list at their
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home address eleven twenty Seaton Place. Oh my, that's quite far from here.
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Parents deceased, Guardian. Oh, anything wrong, sister? Why I
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remember Lorraine now, mister Dolla. Her parents were killed in an automobile accident
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in her senior year. Yes, and she went to live with her uncle,
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James Broderick at this seat and address. Oh yes, yes, I
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remember that lovely girl she was, and sister Hildegarde's class. That ties up
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with what I know about her so far, sister. Oh, I remember
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her so clearly. I can even see her face. Perhaps that was it,
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her face like an angel's, gentle and fresh and wonderful. The man
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who left her the insurance money must have thought the same as you do,
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sister. He saw her one day when she was eleven. Oh, I
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have an annual from that year. Mister Dalla, would you like to see
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Lorray? Yes? Right here, Yes, here we are. That's Lorraine
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Broderick. Beautiful, isn't she. Sister Mary Regina pointed to a group picture
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on one of the pages. It was labeled Girl's Fidelity. Lorraine Broderick was
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in the first row, one of thirty or forty self conscious little girls wearing
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identical self conscious expressions. Her hair appeared to be deep brown or black,
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her features soft and slightly cherubic. Undeniably, Lorraine Brodrick had been a beautiful
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young girl in all probabilities. She was a beautiful young woman wherever she was.
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By five o'clock I'd been to her uncle's address on Seaton Place. There
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I learned that uncle James Brodrick had died of a heart attack in nineteen fifty.
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The people at the address reported that Lorraine had lived with him up until
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the time of his death. She had worked in a dentist's office. They
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told me, as far as they knew she still worked there. I mean
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a phone call, Yes, sir Johnny Donner, mister Steele, Oh,
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how are you going on, Lorraine Brodrick? Oh? I might need some
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help. Have you got a man. Sure, I've got her traced up
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to nineteen fifty steel. She worked for a dentist here in tom Probably got
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a job in his office right out of high school. That meant she pretty
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well had to get it through a professional agency. That sounds reasonable. I
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get a man to check the agencies in town, the specializing let me know.
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The next day, I was back in Saint Charles High School making up
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a list of names and addresses belonging to students who had been in Lorraine Brodrick's
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graduation class. Out of the ten names I chose at random, I was
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able to locate only two. Both girls, both married, Both remembered Lorraine
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Broderick. Neither of them had seen her since graduation. Neither of them was
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able to furnish any helpful information. Expense account item five ten cents one phone
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call. Steal again. You want to take this down dollar? Yeah?
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Okay? David Pollard. That's doctor David Pollard, twenty nine fifty tremulane.
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Lorraine Broderick went to work for him as a receptionist nineteen forty nine. Got
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it? Got it? What's his office address? Sweet two ten, Majestic
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Building. I got there about a quarter of six. There was no receptionist
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on duty. As a matter of fact, no reception disk. A stern
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looking nurse and a rumple white uniform knew nothing of at Lorraine Brodrick, who
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might have worked for doctor, doctor was working with a patient if I cared
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to wait for doctor? Yes, yes, what is it? My name's
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Dollar. I'm with the Eastern Trust Insurance cause i don't need any today,
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mister Dollar. I'm not looking for a sale doctor. Well, that's right,
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I'm trying to find a friend of yours. Who you're talking about,
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Lorraine Broderick. Oh, I is Lorraine these days? I don't know,
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doctor. I'd like to meet her and find out you're looking at the wrong
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place. I can't help you. She hasn't been around here for a couple
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of years. By oh wait, oh what now? Well, you've got
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an awful big chip on your shoulder. Doctor. You won't even let me
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explain my business. I'm not interested in your business. I can tell you
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mine's been going on since eight o'clock this morning, and I'm pretty tired.
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You've finished now? Yes? Can I take you downstairs and buy you a
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drink? Sorry? What is it? You want to know where I can
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get in touch with her. I don't know. She quit without notice a
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couple of years ago, just didn't come back too bad too. Do you
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have any idea where she might have gone? Just what is this for?
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To pay us some money? We are we can't locate her anywhere. Oh
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I'm sorry, but neither can I are you still trying? Not anymore?
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All I know is she just left one day about two years ago. She
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had a little apartment over the West Side. The manager told me she'd pulled
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out bag and baggage, and I haven't heard from her since. Were you
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on good terms with her? Doctor, Doctor, I'll take the drink.
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Don't misunderstand me. Dollar. She was a real sweet girl, but there
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was something about her. I don't know. I hope you'll find her,
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or maybe I don't. What are you talking about? She had plans of
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her all and plans she never told me about. Look, I was in
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practice three years when she came to work for me, fresh out of high
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school. With all of it, she still made me feel like a little
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boy in neat pants. That smile of hers, you could take two ways,
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and the look that went with it. I'm sure She's met a lot
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of men since she walked out on me, and I'll bet all of them
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have found out the same thing. What's that that they've been taken? You
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mean money? Oh, it wasn't the watch, or the necklace or the
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loans every now and then, it was being taken worse, you know,
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being used and knowing you're being used. I don't quite get it. And
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I'll make it clear that sweet, fresh, beautiful little girl was out to
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do everything and everybody for all she could get. She's rotten, you know,
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just plain rotten. Johnny Doller, this is Carl Walden. There's a
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message here for me to call you. Oh, yes, mister Walden.
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I'm with Eastern Trust Insurance Company. We're trying to locate an insurance beneficiary named
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Lorraine Broderick. Understand she lived in your apartment building up until nineteen fifty three.
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Who told you that a doctor she worked for here, doctor Pollard.
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I don't know where she is, mister Dollar, I haven't seen her for
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two years. We're trying to pay off acclaim. Mister Walden, didn't she
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leave a forwarding address or give you any idea of where she? No,
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No, not a thing you've got a job on your hand. Spell.
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I don't think that baby wants to be found. Got a couple of minutes,
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Yes, I'll be right over Expense accounts submitted by Special Investing at a
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Johnny Dollar the Eastern Trust Insurance Company Claims Division, Hartford, Connecticut. The
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following is an accounting of expenditures incurred during my investigation of the broad Rick matter.
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Lorraine Brodrick. That is missing expense account continued. I had a six
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fourteen dollars even photographs. The photographer who had taken the pictures of the nineteen
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forty eight graduating class at Saint Charles High School still carried the pros and his
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files, Among them four poses of Lorraine Brodrick. I'd stop by to get
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them on my way out to see Carl Walden, apartment house manager. He
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hadn't changed his mind about anything since our phone conversation. No, sir,
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she doesn't seem to want anybody to know where she is. She'd left a
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forwarding address or something like that. Instead, she pulled out in the middle
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of the night, bagging baggage. And that's the last we ever saw.
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Just when was this mister Walden about the middle of December, So nineteen fifty
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three, Yes, was a couple of years ago. Or you want one
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of these? No, no thanks, I don't smoke. Can you think
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of any place you might have gone, mister Waldon? New York City?
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Oh? Why New York It's the closest place to go, isn't it for
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somebody like her? I'm not so sure I know what she was like.
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I've had several different versions, mister Waldon. They say you talked to that
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doctor she worked for. Yeah, boy, I'll bet his version was a
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pip. How do you mean, Well, she walked out on him.
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That poor guy was around here several times, asking if we'd heard from her,
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if she'd written us a change of address. He didn't say it,
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but I think he had it real bad for her. Oh oh yeah,
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And I didn't tell him about the other guy either. Well suppose you tell
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me about the other guy, mister Walden? Oh why not? Well,
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well, about a week before she left, I saw her in the hall
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a couple of times with this other guy, big gray haired man, wore
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Hamburgs and things like that. An older man, is that what you mean?
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Oh? No, not old forty five ish? Maybe you're no expensive
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looking character drove a caddy the size of a freight train. New York plates
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buy and sell this place with his pocket money? Happen to Noah's name?
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No, he never came around again after she moved out. But they were
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your chummy while he was here, at least a couple of times. I
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saw them together. Can't blame him. She was okay. Did she owe
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you any rent once she left? Nope? Did she give you a notice
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she was vacating, noope, just left a note or anything. A fifty
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dollar bill on the desk in an envelope addressed to me. That's all.
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That's it. Well, was she friendly with anybody else in the building?
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Not that I know of. People here keep pretty much themselves. You know,
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it's a funny thing. What's funny that old boy with the hamburg I
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wonder why he never came around looking for her? Good question? Expensive count
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item seven twenty two dollars advertisements. I placed ants in the personal columns of
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every New York paper. Anyone knowing the present, whereabouts, said Lorraine brought
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Rick, Please contact I spent the rest of the day interviewing the Cadillac dealers
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in town on the off chance that one of them might have service to Cadillac
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with the New York plates. Sometime in December of nineteen fifty three. No
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one remembered the man Walden had described. I even tried the service records,
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impossible to check. The case was stalemated that way for five days. Last
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Tuesday, things picked up. Johnny Doller. Hello, Hello, who is
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this Johnny Dollar? Yeah? Can you hear me? Very well, Johnny,
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I'm calling from New York. Who is this? Why? It's Lorraine
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Lorraine? Yes, yes, I saw your advertisement in the papers, Johnny.
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I wondered what you wanted, Johnny. Yes, that's what I always
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called you, isn't it. You never met me before in your life?
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Hey, what is this? Why? Just a moment, Go ahead,
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mister Dameron, mister Dollar, yeah, just what is your business with Lorraine
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Broderick? I want to find her to pay off an insurance claim? Who
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you will see? I'm sorry I asked my secretary to say she was Lorraine.
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I've been listening on the extension. I'd like a little more explanation than
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that. Mister Damren, William Damn, four two East twenty seventh Street,
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I know how all this must count. You mister Dollar. But I'm not
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trying to confuse you. Well, I am confused. Do you know Lorraine
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Brodrick? Yes, and let's take it from there. Mister Dameron, expense
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account ADAM eight fifteen dollars transportation and Incidental's Hartford to New York for the purpose
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of seeing mister William Damren, whoever he might be, and trying to gather
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further information concerning Lorraine Brodrick, wherever she might be. Four twenty four East
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forty seventh was a thirty story job that housed, among other things, the
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Union Brokerage Company. This happened to be located on a ground level suite.
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It also happened that mister William Damren was president of saying he looked about the
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way I expected. Of course I knew Loren Brodrick. Mister Daller, I
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apologize again for that awkward subterfuge on the telephone. You say you represent an
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insurance company. That's right. May I see your credentials? I'm sure here,
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investigator, thank you, we're trying to pay off on a policy,
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mister Dameron. A man named John Smith left Lorraine Broderick a small estate of
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fifteen hundred dollars. I see, can you tell me where she is right
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now? I'm afraid I can oh sit down, mister Daaston. Thanks,
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I take it you knewer in Hartford. That's right I did. She came
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here to New York with me. Let me assure you there was nothing improper
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about it. I met Lorain when she was working for a dentist there,
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doctor or whatever it was. I happen to have had a little dental trouble
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on a trip there. I found a dentist and I met her When I
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suggested she drive to New York with me. I did it with the understanding
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that we were to be married here. Huh. You couldn't have known her
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very long, mister Dameron. A week. No one could have been more
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surprised than myself with my own conduct, and still more surprised when once we
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arrived here, Lorene disappeared. Yeah, that seems to be a habit of
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hers. Tell me about it, mister Dameron. Look you're talking to me,
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not the insurance company. Very well. It was Christmas Eve of nineteen
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fifty two. Lorraine was staying with my sister Pauline up in Westchester County.
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I picked her up about six o'clock that evening to go to a party out
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on Long Island. Been here in Long Island. We stopped for gasoline.
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I left the car for a moment, and when I came back, Lorraine
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was gone. And that's it. Did you see her or hear from her
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after that? No? I didn't. Did she leave a note in the
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car, a message of some kind? No? I don't quite get this.
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Mister Dameron. You are going to be married after you knew her only
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a week. You brought her here to New York and a few days later
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she just stepped out of your car in a filling station and disappeared. It
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was quite reasonable from her point of view, I suppose, but not from
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mine. It doesn't make sense. Did you have a fight, an argument
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or something? What was it? Nothing? Nothing? I don't think I
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would ever have argued with Lorraine, lovely gentle squeeah. What about the things?
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What things? A clothes out at your sisters? Didn't she send for
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them or what? No? She only had two small bags. They are
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still there as far as I know. What did you do? Did you
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call a police? Why? Well, I would if a girl I was
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going to marry disappeared like that. No, I'm afraid to call it.
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The police would have been well, rather awkward a man in my position.
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Let me ask you this. Do you have any idea why she walked away?
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Yes? Perhaps it's of no practical value to you, though any information
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I can get will be helpful us. All right, then, I think
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Lorraine was frightened. What of life, mister Dollar, Not people of circumstances,
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but life. Yes, you say that with a lot of conviction.
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Yes, Lorain had always been well, a poor girl. She lived with
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a rather decrepit uncle for a time after her parents were killed in an accident
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and automobile accident. She said, I think that I I offered her the
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happiness and security issue had always longed for. But I also think she was
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not mature enough or adjusted well enough to accept it. This is of no
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value, wizard, I might be. Can you tell me if she ever
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spoke of any ambitions. Maybe she want to go on the stage and become
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a nurse. Son, Lorraine simply wanted to be my wife and live here.
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I can see you find that difficult to believe, and I'm almost old
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enough to have been her father. That is not the reason Lorraine walked away
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from the car that night. Believe me, mister Dollars, I'm terribly mistaken.
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She was very much in love with me and wanted to marry me.
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Have you tried to find her, mister Damon, No, no, I
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have not. I waited around the filling station that night, hoping she'd return,
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but I didn't report the matter to the police. As I said before,
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I intended to hire private detectives to locate her, but then I gave
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that up to I'm afraid I don't understand this. If you loved her,
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it would this make it more understandable. Lorraine was a rational, normal human
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being when I left her in that car. No one forced her away from
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it or me. The man at the filling station said, she merely stepped
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out and disappeared down the street. She left of her own free will,
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for her own reasons. I think I see your point. Thank you.
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I have hoped that one day she would appear at my door, contact me,
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come to me, but she hasn't. The most matchless woman I've ever
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known. Is there any way I can help you more concretely if you can
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tell me the exact location of that filling station. I don't believe I can
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do that. But last place she was seeing alive. Just a word,
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mister Damon. Have you spoken to many people who knew her, a few,
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the dentist, she worked for, an apartment house manager, principal in
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her high school. Yeah, I think they all told me the truth,
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the truth, you know how it actually was, what really happened, mister
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Dameron. She would have run out on you in Westchester, taken a cab
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from your sister's place with her luggage, or she could have come to you
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and called off the marriage. Now looking at you and talking to you,
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anyone would be impressed by the fact that you're a reasonable and understanding man.
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I am. She could have left you a dozen easier ways, mister Dameron.
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But it doesn't stand a reason that she'd step out of a car on
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Christmas Eve on the way to a party and disappear with no luggage, with
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the clothes on her back and no more. Women don't do things like that.
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They want an overnight bag and change your clothes somewhere to go to.
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It doesn't make sense that's exactly what she did. They don't do it that
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way unless there's a mighty good reason. A real gilt edge reason, mister
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Dameron, something that says what's ahead is better than what's being left. How
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much did she swipe? What? What did she take? How much?
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Close to sixty five hundred dollars sixty lovely, sweet gentle, she took it
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from the wallet in my overcoat while I was talking to the filling station attendant.
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I would have given it to her gladly, all of this everything,
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but she had to steal it from me. She had to steal it from
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me like some common little thief. There's truly no fool like an old fool,
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is there a mister Dammar. There'll be another intriguing episode of the Brodrick
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Matter tomorrow. Tomorrow when the trail really gets hot and goes right down on
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a police plodder. Join us, won't you? Yours Truly? Johnny Dollar.
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Yours Truly Johnny Doller starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood, written by
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John Dawson, It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to
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join us tomorrow night at same time and station for the next exciting episode of
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Yours Truly Johnny Doller, Roy Roland speaking Welcome back well fans of the old
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time radio westerns. Program will recognize immediately the voice of John Dayner, who
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played Palavian and also played the lead over on Frontier On a Frontier, J
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Gentleman, this was a pretty interesting episode as we're getting these conflicting pictures of
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of the missing woman, and this is kind of building that. You just
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a very well done, well told character piece, and it's going to be
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interesting to see how this how this plays out. You'll want to definitely be
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with us this week as we continue this on Wednesday with part three. In
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Part four of the Broadwick Matter, All right, well we start off.
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We turned to listener comments and feedback and received this from Avery, who writes,
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hello, mister Graham. I thought I would sit down and write to
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you how much I appreciate your shows, both of them. Your show is
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not only informative, but also a great way to get all the wonderful episodes
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of the Lost Radio Land at Tech. The show the Great Detectives of Old
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Time Radio is definitely one of my favorites. Your Dragnet show is qua professional
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and very interesting. I must congratulate you on such a wonderful show. I
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also wanted to bring your attention that I'm a seventeen year old boy who wears
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suits, ties and trench coats and the occasional fedora, and very much a
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devoted fan of Gerald Moore, Jack Webb and Tudor Onland. My favorite shows
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are Escaped, The Adventurers of Philip Marlowe and Pat Novac for Hire. I
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was introduced to radio drama by my great uncle Bill, who showed me an
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episode of Pat Novac when I was very young. I've loved the shows of
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the forties four as long as I can remember. I used to dream of
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creating my own radio drama, so last summer I sat down in front of
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my computer and wrote myself a script to an original radio detective named Eddie Mackin.
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I pitched the show to the local radio station and the show was approved,
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using a totally volunteer cast and the largest booth the station has. Eddie
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Mackin Private Eye is Well This Way to be coming, a long running series
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for little information on Mackin himself and his world. Makin's a private eye from
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San Francisco, fresh from Korean nineteen fifty two. Here he stays and sets
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up his office on the third floor of the McKay's, a San Francisco Sunshine
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Boarding House, where Keatie McKay, the owner's granddaughter, is both beautiful and
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dangerous. Between weird clients and cricket cops, Mackin hands his hands full from
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tigers to kidnappers. And while it's not exactly Novak's and fran I do believe
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old time radio lovers like myself would love to hear an original radio drama written
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the style of old radio detector shows, but a new fresh detective. You
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can look up my show on YouTube under Eddie Mackin. That's eed D I
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E M A C ki N Private Eye. So far I've done for my
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personally written episodes as well as several radio scripts are Redone. We've done episodes
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of Philip Marlowe, Pat Novak Dragging It, and Year a Wolf, and
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that's just a start. Every Sunday night, you can tune in at five
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thirty at thirteen am thirteen forty the Rancho Salita, Colorado. The station has
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an online listening option on the kV kvrh AM thirteen forty the ram Salita Colorado
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website, so you can listen anytime on YouTube. I just thought that once
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all of us fans here enjoy your show so much and love old radio so
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much, some may be interested in listening to my program. So far the
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show has been fairly successful. Hope that if you can tune in whoever you
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are, wherever you are. From old radio fan one o old radio fan
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to another, enjoy. Thanks for reading my email. I'm very gracious and
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thankful, Avery Martinez. Well, thanks so much. Avery, you know
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I'm and I know I just had this email which provides a lot of a
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plug for his program, but I just appreciate so much. You know,
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I'm taking the effort to do that. And I sat down and I did
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listen to the first episode of Eddie Mackin, and with an all volunteer cast,
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I'd say that it's I'd say that it's a good start. And I'll
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say this for Avery as Eddie Mackin that when I listened to it, he
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really, in his characterization and his acting, did an extremely good job of
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capturing the spirit of the nineteen forties detectives. I really, if he hadn't
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emailed me, I would not have thought that he was a seventeen So a
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phenomenal job on that, and I just encourage him to keep working, keep
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working with it. Keep learning, keep enjoying. I keep listening to the
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program. So all the best to you Avery and all you're doing down there
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in Colorado. I also want to thank Chuck B who went ahead and used
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his Twitter account to encourage his followers to check out the Great Detectives of Old
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Time Radio and provided our address a great way to promote the show. And
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thank you so much, Chuck. All right, well, that will do
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it for today. Again back here on Wednesday, part three of The Broadwick
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Matter, and then join us tomorrow as we begin our new series, The
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Big Guy. In the meanwhile, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great
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